Scourge of Rome

Jackson, Douglas, 1956-2016

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AD70. Gaius Valerius Verrens has been disgraced, dishonoured and banished. To return to Rome would be to face certain death. Such a punishment would break a lesser man, but Valerius knows his only hope lies with his friend Titus, son of the newly crowned Emperor Vespasian and now commander of the Roman Army of Judaea. And so he journeys east... and into the heart of a savage rebellion. Reaching the legions arrayed around the walls of the seemingly impregnable city of Jerusalem, Valerius finds Titus a changed man. Gone is the cheerful young officer - in his place a ruthless soldier under pressure to terminate this uprising. Caught up in a web of intrigue spun by Titus's lover, Queen Berenice of Cilicia, and the venal advisors that surround the general, Valerius knows that this will not help him win back his freedom. It is only in the heat and blood of battle that he can rediscover the glory that made him a Hero of Rome.